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Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice

Autor Carol Bacchi, Susan Goodwin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2018
This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. According to the authors, interrogating policies and policy proposals as problematizations involves asking questions about the assumptions they rely upon, how they have been made, what their effects are, as well as how they could be unmade. To enable this form of critical analysis, this book introduces an analytic strategy, the “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” (WPR) approach. It features examples of applications of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality to illustrate the growing popularity of this way of thinking and to provide clear and useful examples of poststructural policy analysis in practice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349958559
ISBN-10: 1349958557
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Part I  Asking new policy questions
1Introduction2
2Making politics visible: The WPR approach15
3Key themes and concepts33
Power, knowledge and resistance34
Practices, events and relations 39
Discourses and discursive practices43
Problematizing, problematizations, self-problematization47
Governmentality: rationalities and technologies52
Genealogy and subjugated knowledges58
Subjectification, subject positions and dividing practices63
Part IIInterrogating policies as constitutive: WPR applications
4Making and unmaking “problems”71
Understandings of “problems” in policy analysis72
Alcohol and other drug “problems”77
“Gender equality”80
5Making and unmaking “subjects”87
Education policy90
Health policy92
Immigration policy94
Economic policy96
Transport/environment policy98
Disability/equality policy99
Family policy<101
6Making and unmaking “objects”104
“traffic”/“cycling”107
“poverty”/“social inclusion”109
“addiction”111
“literacy”114
States of being: “wellbeing”, “disability”, “developing/developed”116
7Making and unmaking “places”120
Making (up) “the state”            123
Making (up) “Europe”124
Making (up) “urban”/“rural” “places”127
Making (up) “developed” and “developing” “places”130
Making (up) “public places”132
8Conclusion135
Appendix:     Poststructural Interview Analysis: Politicizing “personhood” by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham143
Bibliography155
Index


Notă biografică

Carol Bacchi is Professor Emerita of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her work over the past forty years has encouraged rethinking of taken-for-granted truths about women’s history, equality policy and public policy generally. Major publications include:Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference(1990),Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems(1999) andAnalysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be?(2009). 

Susan Goodwin is Associate Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on social policy and gender, and she contributes to policy processes at local, national and international levels. Recent publications includeMarkets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy(2015),Schools, Communities and Social Inclusion(2011) andSocial Policy for Social Change(2010).


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This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. According to the authors, interrogating policies and policy proposals as problematizations involves asking questions about the assumptions they rely upon, how they have been made, what their effects are, as well as how they could be unmade. To enable this form of critical analysis, this book introduces an analytic strategy, the “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” (WPR) approach. It features examples of applications of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality to illustrate the growing popularity of this way of thinking and to provide clear and useful examples of poststructural policy analysis in practice.

Carol Bacchi is Professor Emerita of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her work over the past forty years has encouraged rethinking of taken-for-granted truths about women’s history, equality policy and public policy generally. Major publications include: Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference (1990), Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems (1999) and Analysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? (2009). 

Susan Goodwin is Associate Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on social policy and gender, and she contributes to policy processes at local, national and international levels. Recent publications include Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy (2015), Schools, Communities and Social Inclusion (2011) and Social Policy for Social Change (2010).


Caracteristici

Offers a novel, refreshing, and politically engaged way to think about public policy

Introduces and develops an innovative, critical framework in policy analysis

Rethinks policy development through a poststructural lens